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I am not sure if it is a LTT sin to post about Apple products, but I have a friend who wants to move from an older iMac to his Apple G5 2.3 Dual core specifically for video editing and some 3D art stuff. He also already has 4gb DDR2 533mhz.

 

My question is that, with these specs and the intended use, would this system be good for editing if I added 4gb more of ram and a GTX 660 or 760? 

 

This system is going to be used every day with Premier pro CS3 and After Effects and some Photoshop. And the goal is going to be low cost and max performance.

 

Thanks for the help.

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Why not sell the RAM and buy a better computer? DDR2 is pretty rare these days

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Why not sell the RAM and buy a better computer? DDR2 is pretty rare these days

What about SDRAM and older?

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What about SDRAM and older?

Don't know about that. Maybe?

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If you have the money to add ram and a 760, I'd suggest saving a bit more for a new cpu/mobo upgrade as well. The dual core is holding the system back and it really isn't worth staying with it.

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A G5?! For video editing?! What are you smoking and where can I get some???

 

Seriously, I've used a 1st Gen Mac Pro (2006) with 11gb RAM and a mediocre GFX card and it is painful if you do anything with 1080p. Granted not sure how it will preform with high end GFX, but dat processor. Just scrap the whole thing and get like a 2011 i7 iMac and you'll be blazing quick.

 

If you put that much into the older hardware, in two years its going to really be garbage. The average life cycle of a mac in professional environment is six years. So a 2011 will still give four or five more years before the next upgrade... Also the quicker machine means you can push out projects quicker, yielding more profit anyway. That is if this is a business machine anyway.

 

Bottom line from me, get something much much better. Don't even bother.

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UPDATE: I just recieved word that it has 2 dual core 2.3ghz, does that change anything.

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UPDATE: I just recieved word that it has 2 dual core 2.3ghz, does that change anything.

I will say the thing everybody said. Shithole for gaming, not to mention even more intensive editing. Get a Mac/PC with i7 if you plan to do any editing.

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UPDATE: I just recieved word that it has 2 dual core 2.3ghz, does that change anything.

Not all cores are the same and you can't just compare clock speeds unless everything else is the same. Either way, you're going to want at the very least a modern quad core for editng.

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I've used a Powermac G5 before too. Only thing I would use it for is a simple workstation computer and that even has issues.

 

At risk of being so negative; the power consumption is ridiculous and it is a Power PC architecture. I can not even run Firefox... Most modern Mac apps are intel only these days, and Leopard (10.5) is only getting older.

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I am not sure if it is a LTT sin to post about Apple products, but I have a friend who wants to move from an older iMac to his Apple G5 2.3 Dual core specifically for video editing and some 3D art stuff. He also already has 4gb DDR2 533mhz.

 

My question is that, with these specs and the intended use, would this system be good for editing if I added 4gb more of ram and a GTX 660 or 760? 

 

This system is going to be used every day with Premier pro CS3 and After Effects and some Photoshop. And the goal is going to be low cost and max performance.

 

Thanks for the help.

you fastest gpu you can get for a g5 is the 6800 ultra

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